Fortunate in Family

 https://forestbloodgood.blogspot.com/2020/06/graduation-letter-1985-rear-admiral-js.html 

 

(Linda Mesa Way, Napa, California) 

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Dear Forest,

It May have been Mark Twain who said to a reporter

"I don't care what you say about me

but please spell my name right!"

You also got our zip code wrong

and can blame that on Sis Dorothy,

I'll bet. We forgive you.

Congratulations of finishing the first lap

of the big rat race. Good luck from here on!

JS Champlin

5-25-85

 

(Forest Youngblood!) 

At least spell my name right. I forgive Great Aunt, she paid my tuition at KU.)

His sister Ruth certainly was thinking of the Youngblood Hotel in Enid, not her great nephew

Forest L. Bloodgood  

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Detached in October 1948, he assumed command of  

USS Mt. Olympus, 

 and continued in command of that Amphibious Force, Flagship, in the Atlantic, until December 1949.  

"USS Mount Olympus (AGC-8) was a Mount McKinley-class amphibious force command ship, named for the highest peak in the Olympic Mountains of the State of Washington. She was designed to be an amphibious forces flagship—

a floating command post

 with advanced communications equipment and extensive combat information spaces 

to be used by the amphibious forces commander 

and landing force commander 

 during large-scale operations. " 

"She arrived Leyte Gulf 20 October, there to serve as the floating headquarters for the huge U.S. Army invasion force. 

 The landing force was subjected to continual air attacks, but its survival was assured by the American naval victory in the  

Battle of Leyte Gulf,  

which destroyed the Japanese Navy as an effective combat force." 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Mount_Olympus 

The Battle of Leyte Gulf 

(Japanese: レイテ沖海戦, romanized: Reite oki Kaisen, lit. 'Leyte Open Sea Naval Battle', Filipino: Labanan sa Golpo ng Leyte) 

 was the largest naval battle of World War II 

 and by some criteria the largest naval battle in history, 

 with over 200,000 naval personnel involved"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Leyte_Gulf